Ph.D in molecular cancer biology from the University of Helsinki in 1997

Current Position

Research Director of the Medical Faculty, University of Helsinki
Vice-Director (shared duties) and Principal Investigator at Cancer Cell Circuitry Laboratory in Translational Cancer Biology Research Program of the Medical Faculty

The human family of type II transmembrane serine proteases includes 17 members. The defining features of these proteases are an N-terminal transmembrane domain and a C-terminal serine protease of the chymotrypsin (S1) fold, separated from each other ...

MCF10A 3D culture system provides a reductionist model of glandular mammary epithelium which is widely used to study development of glandular architecture, the role of cell polarity and epithelial integrity in control of epithelial cell functions, ...